Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism

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66. Macaulay,Lord Clive, 76–7. During the course of the negotiations with Mir Jaffar, Clive
    found it expedient to forge the name of Admiral Charles Watson to a false treaty, which
    was used to deceive one of the Hindu intermediaries in the discussions who had threatened
    to betray the plot to Siraj-ud-daula unless he were paid £300,000 for his silence. Watson
    willingly signed the correct treaty, but refused to do so for the other. Clive believed that
    his actions were correct and necessary, on the grounds that the dishonorable treaty was
    used only to counter the efforts of a dishonorable man.


67. Ibid., p. 3.


68. Henty,Jack Archer, 74.


69. Register, 82, 252.


70. PRO File WO/32/7358, Documents relating to the Forfeiture of Edward St John Daniel.


71. Byron Farwell,Queen Victoria’s Little Wars(New York: W. W. Norton, 1972), 72–5,
    132–3, 193–8. PRO file WO/98/3. Letter from B. Hawes to Sir John Page Wood, 1
    May 1857. Henty never mentioned the midshipman in question’s first name, but it
    is interesting to note that there was in fact a midshipman named Wood in theQueen:
    Midshipman Evelyn Wood, the future Field Marshal, who did indeed accompany
    Captain Peel and Daniel in the Crimea. Wood was recommended for a VC in the Crimea,
    but did not receive it. He did receive the VC for chasing bandits in India in 1859. He was
    later a part of the Ashanti campaign, and Henty served as a war correspondent with him.


72. PRO File WO/32/7358; Henty,Jack Archer, 73–93,passim, 225.


73. H. Woosnam Mills,The Tirah Campaign, Being the Sequel to the Pathan Revolt in Northwestern India
    Compiled from the Telegrams and Special Correspondence of the Civil and Military Gazette Press(Lahore,
    India: Civil and Military Gazette Press, 1898), 73–77. This sort of journalism had been
    going on for a couple of decades by the turn of the century: see also, for example,
    ‘Afghanistan,’Times, 24 December 1879, 10; and 25 December 1879, 8; ‘The Zulu
    War,’Timesof London, 12 February 1879, 10, and subsequent issues.


74. Gordon Highlanders Museum File PB1215. Telegram from Lord Wolseley to ‘the
    Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders,’ 26 October 1897. Telegram from Sir George
    Wolseley to Colonel Henry Matthias. Assorted telegrams from the ‘Durban Fellow
    Scotchmen,’ the Caledonian Society of Johannesburg, ex-officers of the Regiment, and
    officers of other regiments.


75. Lieutenant Colonel A. D. Gardyne, The Life of a Regiment, 1816–1898 (London:
    Medici Society, 1929), 293–4, 307. Piper George Findlater, Lieutenant Henry
    Singleton Pennell, Private Edward Lawson, and Lieutenant Colonel Henry Matthias.
    Colonel Matthias, although recommended by the campaign commander General
    Sir William Lockhart himself, did not receive the Victoria Cross, possibly due to a
    command failure later in the Tirah Campaign that resulted in the loss of several lives.


76. Guy Arnold,Held Fast for England: G.A. Henty, Imperialist Boys’ Writer(London: Hamish
    Hamilton, 1980), 22–3.
    CHAPTER 2
    
    
    1. John D. Clarke,Gallantry Medals & Awards of the World, (Sparkford, Nr Yeovil, Somerset, UK:
       Patrick Stephens, 1993), 163–4, 39–41.
    
    
    2. Jay Luvaas,The Education of an Army: British Military Thought, 1815–1940(Chicago: University
       of Chicago Press, 1964), 3.